Cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) and other seasonal viruses are on the rise across the northern hemisphere in early 2025, according to the World Health Organization. While news reports and social media videos have caused concern about a potential HMPV outbreak in China,

India and China could be gearing up for a fresh geopolitical conflict. This isn’t a conflict involving guns, soldiers and warfare. But it is a conflict that concerns an absolutely vital geopolitical resource that neither India nor China can live without.

The recent damage to an undersea cable off Taiwan’s coast has raised alarm over China’s growing use of 'gray zone' tactics—non-military but strategic methods aimed at undermining Taiwan's security. Suspicion points toward China after the Shunxin39,

However, the security reasons for accelerating decoupling from China, at least in strategically significant sectors, remains an imperative broadly supported by both political parties. If the goal is to slow China’s domination in the production of critical and emerging technologies,

China has become the world’s second-largest holder of lithium reserves after a world-class spodumene-type lithium belt spanning 2,800 kilometres was discovered in the country’s west. A mine in the Xikunsong-Pan-Ganzi region in Tibet and some lithium salt lakes in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau were also found.

NXP Semiconductors could generate between 8% and 10% of its revenue from India over the next three to five years, a senior executive told Reuters on Monday, underscoring rising interest in the country's nascent chip market.

Nippon Steel is poised to expand its operations in the U.S. and India as it hunts for growth and protection from cheap Chinese exports after its bid for U.S. Steel was blocked by the White House, analysts say.

The Siang Upper Multipurpose Project will generate electricity and regulate water flow. But locals are angry about government secrecy over the project.

The flu-like virus can lead to serious illness among vulnerable groups, such as young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems.

India’s concerns over the mega dam include Chinese control over the flow of water to India, threat to ecological balance and floods, etc., in an earthquake-prone zone of the Himalayas.

In the face of a rapidly aging population, China is making top-level policy plans to put AI, BCI, and humanoid caregivers to work.